CVE-2019-20457

critical

Description

An issue was discovered on Brother MFC-J491DW C1806180757 devices. The printer's web-interface password hash can be retrieved without authentication, because the response header of any failed login attempt returns an incomplete authorization cookie. The value of the authorization cookie is the MD5 hash of the password in hexadecimal. An attacker can easily derive the true MD5 hash from this, and use offline cracking attacks to obtain administrative access to the device.

References

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/14

https://support.brother.com/g/s/security/en/index.html

https://global.brother

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/14

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-07

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00082